Rainfall update
Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
High rainfall totals in the far south-east and north-east
- A series of cold fronts and low pressure troughs brought showers and isolated thunderstorms to far southern Australia, with snow in elevated regions.
- Weekly rainfall totals of up to 50 mm recorded in far south-eastern South Australia, southern and north-eastern Victoria, far south-western Western Australia, and northern Tasmania, with higher totals of 50 to 100 mm over western Tasmania.
- Persistent high pressure systems over the south generated light onshore showers along parts of the east coast for most of the week.
- Weekly totals up to 25 mm were recorded in parts of New South Wales and the Queensland east coast, with higher totals up to 100 mm along the tropical coast in Queensland.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) of 95.0 mm was recorded at Mt Sophia in Queensland.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) of 74.0 mm was recorded at Corsis Alert in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 2 August, which is the second-highest daily total for August at this station.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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